Sunday, July 15, 2012

People, people, people--when will you ever learn? Do not muck what you believe to be the winning hand until the dealer pushes you the pot. This is not that difficult a concept. You gain nothing by trying to jump the gun and muck them the first instant you think the hand is over, and once in a while you'll lose a great deal, as illustrated by a story from yesterday at the WSOP:

6 comments:

In a way, yes. But: (1) She got 60,000 free chips with zero risk of a suckout. And (2) the ruling was exactly as the WSOP rulebook prescribes, so the floor staff can't be faulted. (It drives me crazy when they don't follow their own rules, which is often.)

Does it make sense? Not really. He has a dead hand--how does he get ANY chips back with a dead hand? I.e., the original raiser should be given the choice to call, which she will, unless she's a moron, because any live hand beats any dead hand. But they didn't ask me.

mThis gets even better. The guy that was all in and mucked is the same guy that knocked her out in 10th place. If she wins that pot , he is out and she is final table of wsop. WOW !!! You should have a entire new post about this now !! you called it in a way grump.

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It's a little hard to say this, because I'm not used to it yet, but I suppose that I'm a professional poker player. I moved to Vegas intending to get a job as a poker dealer, but while waiting to get hired, I spent the days playing poker instead of dealing it, and soon found that I was able to keep the bills paid. So I've just kept on doing it. I play Hold'em exclusively, usually no-limit, and most commonly $1-2 or $1-3, with occasional forays into $2-5 territory. I play tournaments on-line once in a while, but for some reason that I haven't entirely figured out, I'm much more successful playing at casinos than on the Internet, and much better at cash games than tournaments.
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